The Bulli High School Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program, like all BYOD programs in an education setting, inherently imposes a financial cost on students and their families in supplying a device. At the same time, Bulli High School's BYOD program can only function if all students have access to appropriate technological resources in all their classes. Bulli High School takes seriously the role of public education in ensuring all students have access to the same learning outcomes.

To ensure and support equity of access to appropriate technological resources, please contact the school if you would like further advice about support available regarding BYOD.

Advice for parents and carers to support safe online behaviour can be found on the Australian Government E-Safety Commissioner website.

Parental controls assist parents to monitor and limit what their children do online. There are many tools available and they all offer different features, but it is important to know that no tool is 100 percent effective at blocking access to inappropriate content. Most tools:

• Can block children from accessing specific websites, protocols or applications

• filter different kinds of content, like sexual content

• enable parents to monitor use with reports on site accessed

• understand and monitor the length of time frequency of access

• can be used to set time limits

• can enable blocking access after a set time-handy if you are not home and want to limit the time your child spends on a game or social media

• allow parents to change the tool settings to reflect each child's age and skills

Quick video: How to use parental control tools – Australian Govt eSafety Commissioner Office

For the most recent advice and step by step guides for Apple products please use the below link to apply parental controls to your child's device. If you need practical support to do this, contact the school for a parent information/ workshop evening.

Use parental controls on your child's iPhone, iPad and iPod touch – Apple Support (AU)

For some social media apps students use regularly see the below links for parental control guides, protecting personal information and reporting online abuse.

Parental controls in social media, games, and apps.pdf (esafety.gov.au)

Taming the technology | eSafety Commissioner